Diabetic diet mnemonic: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 1 represents one pound of vegetables per day, 2 represents two taels of staple food per meal, 3 represents no more than three small spoons of vegetable oil per day, 4 represents four taels of fruits per day, 5 represents five servings of proteins per day, 6 represents no more than six grams of salt per day, and 7 represents no less than seven glasses of water per day. Diabetes exercise mnemonic: in principle, no less than 20 minutes each time, no less than three times a week. Exercise mnemonic 1,3,5,7,9, 1 represents exercise one hour after meal, 3 represents exercise for 30 minutes, 5 represents at least five activities per week, 7 represents pulse rate should not be more than 170-age for each exercise, and 9 represents exercise should be persisted for a long time. Diabetes mellitus Chinese medicine treatment (a) asymptomatic period Symptoms: generally there is no prominent clinical manifestations, appetite, while the degree of tolerance is reduced, laboratory tests are generally high blood glucose, but often no urinary glucose. Under stress, blood glucose rises significantly and urinary glucose appears. Treatment: nourish yin and kidney. Prescription: Mai Wei Di Huang Tang plus subtractions. (2) 1. Yin deficiency and dryness-heat stage (1) Upper elimination (lung-heat and fluid injury syndrome) Symptoms: irritable heat and thirst, dry mouth and tongue, profuse urination, profuse sweating, red tongue edges, thin yellow moss, rapid pulse. Treatment: clearing away heat and moistening the lungs, generating fluids and quenching thirst. Prescription: Thirst-quenching formula with addition and subtraction. (2) Middle Abdominal Thirst (Stomach-Heat Blazing Certificate) Symptoms: excessive eating and hunger, excessive thirst and urination, emaciation, dry stools, yellow moss, smooth and strong pulse. Treatment: clearing away stomach heat and fire, nourishing yin and increasing fluid. Prescription: Jade Lady Decoction plus reduction. (3) Lower elimination (deficiency of kidney yin) Symptoms: frequent and profuse urination, turbid as ointment, or urine with sweet taste, lumbar and knee soreness, fatigue, dizziness, tinnitus, dry mouth and lips, dry and itchy skin, red tongue with little moss, and fine pulse. Treatment: nourishing Yin and fixing the kidney. Prescription: Six-flavored Dihuang Pill plus subtractions. Symptoms: thirst leading to drinking. The symptoms: thirst leading to drinking, ability to eat and loose stools, or reduced diet, lack of energy, weakness of limbs, thinness, pale red tongue, white and dry moss, weak pulse. Treatment: Enriching Qi and strengthening the spleen, generating fluids and quenching thirst. Prescription: adding and subtracting Seven-flavored Atractylodis Macrocephalae. Symptoms: Frequent urination, turbid as paste, even drinking one ulcer, sallow face, dry ears, weak waist and knees, cold, impotence, pale tongue, white moss, thin and weak pulse. Treatment: nourishing Yin and warming Yang, tonifying the Kidney. Prescription: Kidney Qi Pill plus subtractions. 4, Phlegm and stasis syndrome Symptoms: “three more” symptoms are not obvious, obesity, chest and epigastric distension, muscle soreness, heavy and tingling limbs, dull tongue or petechiae, thick and greasy moss, slippery pulse. Treatment: invigorate blood circulation, eliminate blood stasis and dispel phlegm. Prescription: adding and subtracting Ping Stomach San and Tao Hong Si Wu Tang. Symptoms: dark complexion, lethargy, fatigue, dull pain in the chest, numbness or tingling in the limbs, aggravated at night, purplish lips, dull tongue or petechiae, or green veins under the tongue, and stringy or astringent pulse. Treatment: invigorate blood circulation. Prescription: Add subtractions to Blood Vessel and Blood Stasis Expelling Tang. (III) Complications 1, sores and carbuncles: treat by clearing away heat and removing toxins, using Wu Wei Sterilizing Drink combined with Huang Qi Liu Yi San with additions and subtractions. Cataract, bird’s eye, deafness: treat by nourishing yin and tonifying the kidney, benefiting the essence and tonifying the blood, using Chinese wolfberry dihuang pill, nourishing the liver pill, magnetic Zhu pill plus or minus treatment.